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Post by victoria on Jul 3, 2007 6:37:22 GMT -2
Thought I'd have a go at uploading some of my cakes...this is the first cake I did for my daughter's christening, didn't fancy paying the £100 plus for a similar cake in a shop...
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Post by victoria on Jul 3, 2007 6:43:35 GMT -2
this one I did for my niece's birthday...
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Post by victoria on Jul 3, 2007 6:44:39 GMT -2
and this one for my nephew's birthday...another Carol Deacon cake...I had two attempts at the badge though
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Post by adele on Jul 3, 2007 8:00:48 GMT -2
They are fab well done
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Post by Nauseen on Jul 3, 2007 11:01:22 GMT -2
Victoria, these are really fab!! Love your modelling. Keep it up!
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Post by rach on Jul 3, 2007 13:00:34 GMT -2
great and colourful cakes..I really like them....must try that football one
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Post by sonsandjulie on Jul 3, 2007 16:25:02 GMT -2
Lovely cakes! I especially like the one with the elephants, it's really cute.
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Post by victoria on Jul 3, 2007 16:52:50 GMT -2
this is the most recent one...think everyone has a go at a barbie at least once...had a bit of a disaster when the mix all overflowed the pudding basin then shrunk back so it wasn't tall enough to hide the dolls legs, so had to make another cake for the bottom!
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Post by rach on Jul 3, 2007 17:15:03 GMT -2
oh I like that....love the way the dress floats at the bottom ..mine are always stuck right down cant seem to get a nice flow at the bottom
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Post by juliebtaurus on Jul 5, 2007 18:22:49 GMT -2
Hi im going to have a try at a barbie cake next month and wondered did you use the proper mould and doll pick or did you adapt a pudding basin and build it up with another cake
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Post by victoria on Jul 6, 2007 4:49:59 GMT -2
I manged to get a huge pudding basin (3 litres I think) from TJ Hughes in a closing down sale, only paid about £2 for it. It would have been fine if the mixture hadn't overflowed all over the oven (bit too much baking powder I think), so it shrunk back and wasn't tall enough, so yes, I just built it up with another cake at the bottom...then when I put the sugarpaste on it showed all the bumps of the cake...nightmare, so had to put on another layer, which in hindsight was a good thing as I could then leave it to flow rather than smooth it down
it was all abit of a rush really, my cousin phoned asking for the cake and wanted it in 2 days time and I'd never done one before, had to faff around trying to find a barbie, had no idea how difficult it would be so said it would be about £20...definitely not enough!
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Post by victoria on Jul 6, 2007 4:50:42 GMT -2
and think it would be easier with a doll pick as its not too much of a problem if your skirt bit isn't tall enough...
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Post by juliebtaurus on Jul 27, 2007 16:23:29 GMT -2
hi ive just finished a barbie cake its in my show cakes also had a nightmare if you read my posts for this I used the doll mould but actually ended up doing it in a pudding basin with 2x 8 " cakes at the bottom and found it worked better as the 1st cake stuck in the doll mould and the 2nd didn,t cook in the middle as the cake is so deep we are still eating the trifle made from this one however she did turn out lovely in the end .I actually bought a cheap barbie -like doll from asda £ 1.75 took her legs off and made a centre spike with florists wire and attatched it to a posy pick filled with icing so it didnt really matter about the depth so much then after the party you can re-attatch the legs and use the clothes and the party girl gets to keep her doll .hope this makes sense julie
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Post by victoria on Aug 2, 2007 6:49:35 GMT -2
Well, I've finally finished my first ever wedding cake and not blowing my own trumpet or anything, but I am really pleased with it. Now just have to get it to the venue without it collapsing on me!
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Post by dkcrooby on Aug 2, 2007 11:02:24 GMT -2
Wow, that's really lovely!
Well done - I'd also be extremely pleased with that.
Shianne
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